MNSAV Metadata

General Information

  1. Data sets used were selected after considering multiple sources for each item. Whenever "best available" from current online sets such as Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data, U.S. Geological Survey 'The National Map', GeoPlatform, Data.gov and others were considered significantly flawed, as noted in the table below, data sets were manually created.
  2. Wherever possible symbols as promoted by the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) have been used. When an appropriate symbol was not available from NAPSG or it was believed did not provide substantial enough clarity from other similar symbols, a best possible solution was selected after considering Department of Defense Interface Standard - Joint Military Symbology - MIL-STD-2525C and various commercial sources. When necessary, coloration was added to facilitate item and layer differentiation.

Layer Information

Layer Name - Description

Source Link

Notes

Basemaps

Boundaries

  • Native American Lands - Current extent of Native American nation lands in Minnesota as published by Esri.

Minnesota is filtered out from the national data set.

Layers - COVID-19 Response

Continuously updated. Since the confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are a point dataset, when the polygon county layer is clicked, the totals displayed in the pop-up are queried based on if they are inside the county boundaries.

Automatically updated once a day at approximately noon Central Time, for the preceding day at midnight - which is the only valid time for an update from all states.

  • Number of COVID-19 vaccine providers registered by county - shows a count of vaccination providers per county as published by the State of Minnesota.

Filtered for Minnesota.

Filtered for Minnesota.
Symbol credit: Font Awesome syringe

Filtered for Minnesota and providers that offer free community testing.
Symbol credit: Font Awesome thermometer.

Filtered for Minnesota vaccination locations and providers that do not offer free community testing.
Symbol credit: Font Awesome thermometer.

Layers - General

  • Airports with hard surface runways 5,000' or more - All commercial, non-commercial, military or joint use airports in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and select airports in eastern North Dakota and South Dakota which have hard surface runways of 5,000 feet or more as published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

A spreadsheet was created from authoritative and commercial data sets. Grand Forks AFB and Volk Field ANG Base data from AirNav. All other data created using search of FAA data base limited by region and type of operation. The resulting spreadsheet was then converted into geojson.
Symbol credit: Font Awesome plane.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet derived from Minnesota Department of Health authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Nursing Home Facilities.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet derived from Minnesota Department of Health authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Nursing Home Facilities.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet derived from Minnesota Department of Health authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Nursing Home Facilities.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet derived from Minnesota Department of Health authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Nursing Home Facilities.

  • Fire Stations - State "endorsed" data set of fire stations in Minnesota as verified by counties and compiled by U-Spatial/EPC Critical Infrastructure Assessment Project Team. Published on the Minnesota Geospatial Commons.

Symbol credit: NAPSG Fire Services

  • Local Foodshelves - Foodshelf locations in Minnesota as published by Food Pantries.

Data was scraped from website to create a geojson file with a city, a url that had accompanying food pantry information and latitude/longitude. The pop-up is an iframe from the original data source that displays more detailed information about each individual the city's food pantries.
Symbol credit: Font Awesome apple.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Hospitals.

  • Medical - Native American - Native American clinics and hospitals in Minnesota as published by the Indian Health Service.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using IHS authoritative sources.
Hospital symbol credit: NAPSG Hospitals.
Clinic symbol credit: NAPSG Urgent Care Facilities.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: NAPSG Hospitals.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using Veterans Affairs authoritative public domain information.
Hospital symbol credit: NAPSG Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities.
Clinic symbol credit: NAPSG Veterans Health Administration Medical Clinic.

  • Military Facilities - Federal - U.S. federal military facilities in Minnesota as gleaned from multiple U.S. military public domain sources.

In depth search of online resources to build data base of locations and assets.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using public domain sources.
Air Force symbol credit : Font Awesome plane.
Armed Forces Reserve Center, Army, Coast Guard, Navy and U.S.  Marine Corps symbol credits: Iconfinder.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers symbol credit: Wikimedia.

  • Military Facilities - Minnesota National Guard - National Guard facilities in Minnesota as published by the Minnesota National Guard.

In depth search of online resources to build data base of locations and assets.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using public domain sources.
Airfields symbol credit: Font Awesome plane.
Armed Forces Reserve Center, Armories, Helo Facilities, Training Center Weapons of Mass Destruction Support Team symbol credits: Iconfinder.

Minnesota has been removed from display of this national data base.

Geojson from locally created spreadsheet using Federal Bureau of Prisons and Minnesota Department of Corrections authoritative public domain information.
Symbol credit: Iconfinder Jail.

USNG Responder Maps

  • 10K Overview - Aerial - General overview maps which use National Agriculture Imagery Program aerial images as the base layer, scaled at 1:24,000, centered on named 10 kilometer grid squares of the U.S. National Grid.  
  • 10K Overview - Map - General overview maps which use the base map as created by the combined efforts of Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community, scaled at 1:24,000, centered on named 10 kilometer grid squares of the U.S. National Grid.

Series created by the Emergency Preparedness Committee of the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council in support of FEMA Directive 092-5.  1K mapbooks, scaled at 1:6,000, which provide a detailed view of high density areas are available for many Minnesota cities and towns.

Series created by the Emergency Preparedness Committee of the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council in support of FEMA Directive 092-5. 1K mapbooks, scaled at 1:6,000, which provide a detailed view of high density areas are available for many Minnesota cities and towns.